The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
for safekeeping but steals it himself later. Malbecco continues his search for Hellenore. When he fi nds her, she has taken up r ...
Princes was a very popular work and survives in a number of manuscripts. The Fall is a collection of narratives about famous, po ...
“FAREWELL LOVE, AND ALL THY LAWS FOR EVER!” SIR THOMAS WYATT (ca. 1535) Although this SONNET by Sir THOMAS WYATT exists in two d ...
This agreement, dated 1103 between King Henry I of England and Count Robert of Flanders, clearly sets out the obligations of bot ...
purity of the characters’ emotions. It has been observed that their similarity in names (Floris meaning “of the fl ower” and Bla ...
Fortune is more malevolent. “Dame” Fortune is typi- cally presented as bearing a wheel that is in constant motion. Humans “trave ...
For instance, in the GENERAL PROLOGUE TO THE CANTER- BURY TALES, GEOFFREY CHAUCER relies on the four humors to reveal characteri ...
Biblical analogues to the fi rst three lines of the lyric (Matthew 8.19–20 and Psalms 8.5–9, for example) argue powerfully that ...
738–739), she agrees to marry him. Each agrees to give obedience to the other, and the Franklin (a medieval landowner, not of no ...
remainder of the fee. The philosopher is angered by this and asks, “Hastow nat had thy lady as thee liketh?” (l. 1588). Aurelius ...
camp, where she gives in to Diomede’s wooing and thus breaks her promise to wait until she can be reunited with Troilus. The tal ...
image of the Israelites in the Old Testament, whose faith was tested and proven by their suffering. The con- nection is further ...
to represent the sound. Old English poetry also refl ects the usage of runes. BEOWULF, for instance, contains several instances ...
C D 199 GARLAND OF LAUREL (OVERVIEW) JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1495) The centerpiece poems of Garland of Laurel—those that describe the ...
the Garland are also entirely original and performative; the reader seems to be one of the audience as the poet addresses the la ...
fi ctive Garland of Laurel records a real occasion: the laureation of Skelton as celebrated by the ladies of Eliz- abeth Tylney ...
After the opening COUPLET, the rhymes are tercets (units of three lines of verse), with short, irregularly rhythmic lines, a goo ...
FURTHER READING Gascoigne, George. The Complete Works of George Gascoigne. 2 vols. Edited by J. W. Cunliffe. 1907. Reprint, New ...
terbury to visit the tomb of St. Thomas à Becket, mar- tyr and miracle worker. Although ostensibly a religious journey, it quick ...
ety. The Knight serves as a fi gurehead, coming fi rst, followed by his retinue, small though it may be. The ecclesiastic person ...
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